House of Morphosis

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House of Morphosis — from the Greek morphē (form), -osis (process, transformation).

From raw beauty to refined purpose: this is not a decoration studio, it is a spatial transformation studio, crafted in Bali.

Spatial, emotional and sensory: every material carries intention, every volume creates rhythm, and every silence becomes part of the experience.

The studio stands for rarity, precision, intimacy and permanence.

Luxury here is never loud. It is felt in proportion, in texture, in restraint and in power.

Our philosophy

At House of Morphosis, we believe that design begins long before a piece enters a space.

We curate with intention, looking beyond form to understand material, craftsmanship, origin and the people behind each piece.

Rooted in Bali and deeply connected to Indonesia, we work directly with selected makers, artisans and manufacturers, building relationships that allow us to know how things are made, where they come from and why they matter.

We visit the workshops. We study the materials. We meet the people who make them. We look at the details, the process and the quality behind the object.

Because for us, curation is not simply about finding something beautiful.

It is about finding something with character, integrity and purpose.

From large scale manufacturers with advanced infrastructure to small scale artisans keeping generations of craft alive, we search for the right balance between design, materiality, craftsmanship and endurance.

Every piece we select carries a story, of its material, its maker, its process and its place.

Curated by House of Morphosis.

House of Morphosis
House of Morphosis — Laura Canu, Creative Director & Founder

About

Laura Canu is the Founder and Creative Director of House of Morphosis. Over the past decade, she has led and contributed to high-end residential and hospitality projects within internationally renowned design studios across Europe and Southeast Asia. Projects she has been involved in have been featured in leading international publications, including Arquitectura y Diseño, Design Anthology, Amazing Architecture, ArchDaily, Dezeen, ELLE Decoration, and other prestigious design media.

Throughout her career, Laura has developed extensive expertise in furniture, materials, bespoke design and luxury procurement. Her work has provided privileged access to the headquarters, showrooms and manufacturing facilities of some of the world's most respected design brands, including Minotti, Molteni&C, B&B Italia and internationally renowned furniture and kitchen manufacturers.

Beyond the products themselves, these experiences led to long-standing relationships with internationally recognized designers, artists, artisans and master craftsmen, creating a trusted global network of creative talents and industry leaders. This unique ecosystem allows House of Morphosis to connect clients with exceptional creators and highly exclusive collaborations that extend far beyond conventional sourcing.

After relocating to Bali, Laura expanded this expertise by working closely with Indonesia's finest artisans and manufacturers, developing bespoke furniture, prototypes and custom-made pieces across wood, metal, natural stone and handcrafted materials. Over the years, she has built a trusted network capable of meeting the highest international standards while preserving the authenticity of local craftsmanship.

House of Morphosis was founded from this unique combination of international design knowledge, an international creative network and deep local expertise. Rather than imposing a signature style, the studio curates, develops and sources highly bespoke pieces that reflect each client's vision through exceptional materials, craftsmanship and thoughtful design.

True luxury is never about excess. It is about creating something that exists for one person, and one place only.

House of Morphosis

( How we work )

From intent
to installation.

  1. 01BriefSite, client,
    design intent
  2. 02DirectionConcept,
    moodboards, palette
  3. 03DesignInteriors, furniture,
    built-ins
  4. 04CurationMaterials, products,
    art, objects
  5. 05ProcurementStrategy, quotations,
    samples, orders
  6. 06ProductionWorkshops, shop
    drawings, control
  7. 07InstallationLogistics, delivery,
    handover

( Who we work with )

Residential and hospitality.
Private clients, and the teams behind the project.

  • Residential

    Private clients

    Homeowners building, renovating or furnishing a residence, from a single room to a turnkey villa.

  • Residential · Hospitality

    Architecture & interior design studios

    Your design, our network. We support your project with sourcing, bespoke furniture, procurement and installation in Indonesia, under your creative direction.

  • Residential · Hospitality

    Developers

    Villas and residential developments: furniture packages, built-ins and procurement, planned and delivered across every unit.

  • Hospitality

    Hotel groups

    Hotels, resorts and rental villas: FF&E curation, custom pieces and procurement, built to hospitality standards.

  1. 01

    Brief

    Site · Client · Design intent

    Every project begins with the place and the people who will live in it: the site, the way you live, and how the space should feel.

  2. 02

    Direction

    Concept · Moodboards · Palette

    Before anything is sourced, a project needs a language. We fix one coherent direction (atmosphere, materials, references, light) that becomes the brief for every decision that follows.

  3. 03

    Design

    Interiors · Furniture · Built-ins

    Interiors, bespoke furniture and built-ins, drawn with the architecture so that every element belongs to the space it serves. Every built-in piece is issued as its own technical sheet, drawn to be built.

  4. 04

    Curation

    Materials · Products · Art · Objects

    Stone, timber, fabric and metal selected in person and tested as samples; furniture, lighting and objects researched, not picked from a catalogue. We only propose what we would stand behind.

  5. 05

    Procurement

    Strategy · Quotations · Samples · Orders

    We don’t source furniture, we run a process: a sourcing strategy, the right makers from a network of more than 300, compared quotations and reviewed samples, then every order placed and tracked.

  6. 06

    Production

    Workshops · Shop drawings · Control

    We brief the workshops, review shop drawings and follow production where it happens. Every piece is checked against drawings and approved samples, in the workshop, not discovered on delivery.

  7. 07

    Installation

    Logistics · Delivery · Handover

    Crating, warehousing, delivery and final installation, carried by one team from the workshop to the last cushion.

One point of contact, one schedule.

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House of Morphosis

Craftsmanship × House of Morphosis

( Craftsmanship × House of Morphosis )

Every piece carries more than a form: it carries a place, a hand and a time. We choose objects the way we choose the people we work with, in person.

Laura Canu in a pottery workshop, holding a clay vessel

( 01 )  Our experience

A personal practice,
grown into a studio.

We do not treat Indonesian craftsmanship as a trend. We treat it as expertise: materials, techniques and knowledge held by generations of makers, given a place in contemporary interiors. Behind every name on a quotation there is a workshop, and behind every workshop there are people.

Our work begins long before a piece reaches a project: in timber yards, weaving workshops and factories, meeting the makers and testing their materials. We know where our materials come from and who shapes them, and how techniques that took generations to master can keep a future.

Laura Canu watching a weaver at a hand loom
Selecting slabs at a timber yard

House of Morphosis grew out of the practice of Laura Canu, interior architect, designer and art director, from Paris and Mallorca to Lombok and Bali. Across Europe, she visited the factories and headquarters of the leaders of the market (Molteni&C, Minotti, Arclinea, B&B Italia).

In Indonesia, years of fieldwork followed: workshops visited, materials tested, makers met in person. We still go and see. Before we propose a piece, we want to know who is behind the name of a brand or a workshop, what their hands can do, and where the limits of a material really are.

Seasoned timber stacked at a partner yard

( 02 )  Technique & precision

Selected at the yard.
Drawn in the studio.
Shaped in the workshop.

Timber is chosen at the yard, board by board, for its grain, its seasoning and the way it will age, and certified wherever the supply allows. Every piece is drawn in the studio with the wood in mind, so that the design follows the material rather than fighting it.

Then we follow it into the workshop, where it is cut, joined, turned, sanded and finished by hand, and checked at every stage. A slab becomes a dining table, a log becomes a vessel. Nothing is drawn that cannot be made, because we know the people who make it.

A craftsman sanding solid timber
Turned timber vessels before finishing
A maker checking a lacquered cabinet
Three women sorting natural fibre by hand

( 03 )  Tradition & craftsmanship

Craft as expertise,
not as a trend.

Weaving on a hand loom

Loom weaving, rug tufting, natural fibres sorted and prepared by hand. In the weaving workshops we work with, a single piece passes through many hands before it leaves the floor. These techniques have been passed down through generations, and they deserve more than to be copied.

Natural fibre sorted on the workshop floor
Hands preparing natural fibre

So we work directly with the artisans. We preserve and reinterpret their techniques, find new uses for inherited craft, and design pieces that give natural Indonesian materials their place in contemporary interiors, supporting local production and carrying that heritage forward.

Makers finishing terrazzo pieces in a sunlit workshop

( 04 )  Made to be lived with

Poured, shaped and
finished by hand.

Stone, terrazzo, timber, fabric and metal are selected in person, tested as samples and composed into one palette with the fixtures and the light of each space. Every view of a piece is resolved on paper before it goes to a specialist workshop.

A maker finishing a terrazzo bathtub by hand in raking light
A maker finishing a terrazzo bathtub, seen through the workshop

Terrazzo is poured, cured, ground and polished by hand, in workshops where the dust hangs in the light. Basins, bathtubs and vanities are shaped to the drawing, then finished until the surface is right, and chosen for the way they will age.

Reviewing a terrazzo bathtub with the workshop

( 05 )  The network

300+

Suppliers  ·  Workshops  ·  Manufacturers  ·  Artisans

Not a database. A network built over years of field research: factory and workshop visits, material tests, and relationships that hold. More than three hundred suppliers, workshops, manufacturers and artisans, visited, tested and trusted.

We know the people behind the products, what each workshop can make, the limits of each material and the real lead times. Above all, we know the difference between a beautiful sample and a reliable production partner, and we stand behind what we propose.

The House of Morphosis team walking through a supplier's factory

( 06 )  In the workshop

Checked in the workshop,
not discovered on delivery.

Selecting upholstery fabrics from a supplier's stock
Upholsterers cutting a pattern
A seamstress at work on upholstery fabric

We follow production where it happens, not from a distance. We choose the fabrics from the supplier’s own stock, check the frames before upholstery and the finishes before packing, and review every piece against the drawings and the approved samples.

One point of contact, one schedule: every supplier, order and delivery is tracked until the space is complete, from the first sample to the final installation. Research, not a catalogue. We only propose what we would stand behind, and we have seen most of it being made.

Unfired clay pots in a pottery workshop, in black and white

( 07 )  The last detail

Chosen to the last detail,
in person.

A hand-shaped black clay bowl with a raw rim

Objects, ceramics and textiles are the final layer of a project: chosen last, but never as an afterthought. They carry the identity of the people who live there, and often the hand of an Indonesian maker, from a workshop we know by name.

Carrying a hand-thrown vessel through the workshop
Walking barefoot among clay pieces in the pottery workshop

So we go back to the workshops and choose them ourselves, piece by piece: the weight in the hand, the texture of the clay, the irregularity that makes each one unique. Every object is made by hand, for one project and one place.

( Our difference )

Design intent,
fully realised.

  1. 01

    We design what can be made

    Because we know who makes it, and how.

  2. 02

    A network earned in the field

    300+ makers, visited, tested and trusted.

  3. 03

    Europe × Indonesia

    International standards, applied to local craft.

  4. 04

    One continuous process

    From direction to installation, by one team.

  5. 05

    Controlled at the source

    Checked in the workshop, before anything ships.

  6. 06

    Materials with a future

    Chosen for beauty, origin and longevity.

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House of Morphosis
Studio
Born in Bali,
creating world-wide

Let’s create
together.

Tell us what you’re dreaming up.

A space, a piece of furniture, a material, a feeling, a detail you can’t stop thinking about, or simply an idea that’s still taking shape.

Whether you’re a developer, an architecture studio, a brand, or a private client, we’d love to hear what you’re working on and where you’d like to take it.

Share as much or as little as you have: a project brief, a sketch, a moodboard, a reference, a question, or just the beginning of an idea.

We’ll bring the curiosity, the creative thinking, the right people and the craftsmanship to help turn it into something tangible.

Every project starts somewhere. This could be yours.

We personally read and reply to every enquiry within 48 hours.

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House of Morphosis — interior design & creative studio.
Website: www.houseofmorphosis.com

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House of Morphosis

Legal entity:
PT PMA Maison Canu Gaillard

Business Registration Number (NIB): 2804260084125

Contact:
info@houseofmorphosis.com

Publication Director

Laura Canu, Creative Director & Founder

Marvin Gaillard, Co-Founder

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